{"nhtsa_id":10170508,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2020-01-21","date":"2019-12-05","document_id":"Smart Trunk Deal","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"STRUCTURE:BODY:TRUNK LID","mfr_system":null,"summary":"A nationwide settlement (?Settlement?) has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor America (?HMA?). The lawsuit concerns model year 2015 to 2017 U.S. specification Hyundai Sonata vehicles equipped with the Smart Trunk feature purchased or leased in the fifty United States or the District of Columbia (?Class Vehicles?). The lawsuit alleges that torsion bars on the Smart Trunk in the Class Vehicles are defective because they do not open a sufficient amount. . Defendant has denied these allegations.","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10170508-0001.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10170508-9999.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10170508","components":[{"id":"structure-body","name":"Body and frame","parent":null}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"HYUNDAI","model":"SONATA","year_from":2015,"year_to":2017,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2015_hyundai_sonata","2016_hyundai_sonata","2017_hyundai_sonata"]}],"as_of":"2026-10-19","note":"A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.","attribution":[]}